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Jointery Puzzle

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Jack Guzman from Maine

Jointery Puzzle

Jack Guzman from Maine

>I was asked by the director of the local museum if I would make something that the kids that come on field trips could handle that showed different kinds of joints. What I came up with was a kind of puzzle. It contains rabbets,dadoes,mortises,tenons and dovetails. I made it so the ends are interchangeable .It will fit right no matter how the pieces get mixed up.I made it alittle loose so it would go together easily for inexperienced hands. The tenons on the handle are notched so it locks when held up.---Jack

this is the completed puzzle...


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Jack Guzman from Maine

puzzle pieces apart 

Jack Guzman from Maine

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Nice job Jack!

Scott Burr in Ben Lomond, CA

>Looks like you added a slipped in morticed handle into the works. Better than Leggo's eh!?! I think you did a great job excluding some of the wakey off the wall jointery...

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Really neat Jack

Stephen Kirk in Quakertown PA

>I'm sure that the kids will love it. I've seen kids fascinated by things like this at other places (heck, I'm still fascinated by it!)

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Marv

>Very innovative, Jack.

Are you a Jack of all trades? :-))

To think that what we see here began as merely a thought.

Marv

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Kevin French

>That is a Great idea, it does show alot and it will be fun for kids to play with and learn a little while they do it.

Just to let you know ahead, I'm stealing your idea. Do we call it the Guzman box? Jack-Ingenuity-box?

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Jack Guzman from Maine

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Jack Guzman from Maine

>Call it whatever you like. I make no claims on it.

I love doing things for this museum. It's very gratifying.---Jack

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